UUencoding, UUdecoding, etc.

[John Thompson]

On Mon, 22 May 2000 15:27:26 -0400, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:

>On Mon, 22 May 2000 11:37:28 -0700, Curtis Delzer wrote:
>
>>What if an ISP cannot accept messages larger than XXX and you need to
>>send one.  In NetTamer, for example, (a dos based PPP mail/ftp/http
>>client, messages which are sent with UUencoding can be broken up into
>>as many message(s) as needed because I believe it is one of the
>>abilities of that particular scheme to do it.  In PMMail, I notice that
>>UUENCODING and UUDECODING are available, but message length is not.
>>Any ideas other than going into the otherthan program or outside
>>program to create messages?

>It is not a "feature" of uuencoding to be able to split up a file.
>That is a "feature" of NetTamer, and whatever other e-mail clients do
>that.
>
>UUencoding is merely a way to encode a binary file as text so that the
>e-mail systems can handle it.

I seem to recall that the original  Unix uuencode would by default create
64k files, sequentially numbered, because that was the largest size you
could count on getting through intact.

John (john.thompson@attglobal.net)